Ondo Gov Election: INEC Distributes Materials To 18 Local Councils

By Ayodele Oni

Ahead of the Saturday Governorship election in Ondo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday  commenced the distribution of the sensitive materials to the 18 Local Governments in the State.

Resident Electoral Commissioner(REC) in the state, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, supervised the distribution exercise at the premises of the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) in Akure.

“The exercise is going on smoothly, this distribution exercise is going on very smoothly.  The farthest local governments  have started moving to their local governments.

“All the other local governments have received their materials, they are checking them, and they are loading  the vehicles and if I’m sure in another one and a half hours we should be out of it.

“Most vehicles have loaded the materials and they have started moving to their destination with the security personnel assigned to each vehicle that would pilot the material to their destination.

“The vehicles are already moving. Ilaje has left, Ese- Odo  has left, they are loading, they will soon leave. Then we move to the next set, Akoko, North East, North East, North West, South East, South West, Owo and Ose.

“They have collected all their materials and they will leave any moment from now.  Then Odigbo, Ondo East, Ondo West, Idanre, Axis, they are leaving. We are on course, we are doing it and  we are moving.

“The movement is not local government by local government. We are doing it simultaneously.  It’s not only Ilaje and Ese-Odo, On the land, We have difficult terrains.

“We have on land and we have on water.  The difficult terrain on water, they are in Ilaje and Ese-Odo and we have identified those areas and we  are going to have boats that will transport men and materials.

”We also have the support of the Navy. They are giving us gunboats to secure the movement. For the land where we have difficult terrain, we will move out to the place where vehicle can reach and we’ll continue the rest with suitable means of transportation.”